Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

17396 quotes

"Patient persistence will accomplish what impatient force cannot."
Émile Zola
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"Patience is not passive resignation, but active persistence in what is right."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Patience builds empires; haste destroys them."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Patience is the ornament of the brave."
Victor Hugo
"Never rush to publish your first work; let it age like wine."
Gustave Flaubert
"Patience is not passive; it is the active virtue of those who persevere."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom and the foundation of peace."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Patience with others is love; patience with ourselves is growth."
Alexandre Dumas
"I am patient and tolerant, yet fierce and unrelenting."
Mary Shelley
"Patience in adversity is the truest test of character."
Mary Shelley
"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the complexity of change."
Émile Zola
"Patience is not passivity; it is calculated timing."
Émile Zola
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"Absence of body is absence of pain"
John Keats
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"Patience is the art of hope"
John Keats
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"Patience is a virtue that opens many doors."
Charles Dickens
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"A patient man will always triumph over the hasty."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Patience is not weakness; it is the strength of the truly great."
Honoré de Balzac
"Patience is a virtue that brings great reward."
William Wordsworth
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"Patience is a virtue that removes mountains."
Victor Hugo
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"Patience is the virtue of the noble."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Patience is a virtue."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Patience is the virtue of the powerless."
Mary Shelley
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"Patience is the virtue of those strong enough to wait for what matters most."
Alexandre Dumas
"Generalities and passions don't go well together."
Gustave Flaubert
"Everything degenerates when it exceeds the proper measure."
Gustave Flaubert
"Patience is not passive; rather it is concentrated strength."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Patience is the art of hoping."
Honoré de Balzac
J
"I should feel a great many scruples in beginning an answer so militant."
John Keats
"Patience plants the seeds of lasting achievement."
William Wordsworth
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"Patience is the virtue of the wise."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge